Category: History - Ancient
Different States in Babylonia--The first Empire--The monuments of Tello--Chronology--The United Monarchy--The rise of Assyria-- Babylon a sacred city--Tiglath-pileser I--The First Assyrian Empire--The Second Assyrian Empire--The Babylonian Empire--Cyrus and the Fall of Babylon...
Different States in Babylonia.--More than one kingdom originally existed in Babylonia. Not only were there separate kingdoms in Accad and Sumer, or northern and southern Chaldae...
8. CHAPTER IIThe Site of Babylon.--The site of Babylon was never forgotten. In the twelfth century, Benjamin of Tudela describes the ruins of Nebuchadrezzar's palace which he saw there, and...
12. CHAPTER VIThe Contract-tablets.--We have learnt a great deal about the social life of Babylonia and Assyria from the contract-tablets which have been found in enormous numbers in Babyloni...
10. CHAPTER IVThe religions of Babylonia and Assyria.--The religion of Assyria was borrowed from that of Babylonia. The deities worshipped in the two countries were the same, as also were the...
7. CHAPTER IGeography.--The civilizations of Babylonia and Assyria grew up on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates. The Tigris was called Idikna and Idikla in the Sumerian or primitive lan...
11. CHAPTER VAids to the reading of the texts.--The origin of the cuneiform system of writing has been already described, as well as its chief peculiarities. We must now say something about...
6. CHAPTER VI3. CHAPTER IIIDifferent States in Babylonia--The first Empire--The monuments of Tello--Chronology--The United Monarchy--The rise of Assyria-- Babylon a sacred city--Tiglath-pileser I--The Fir...
4. CHAPTER IVThe religions of Babylonia and Assyria--Differences between Babylonian and Assyrian religion--Sumerian religion Shamanistic-- Two centres of Babylonian religion--Semitic influen...
2. CHAPTER II5. CHAPTER V1. CHAPTER I